Chapter 192: Nine-Phoenix Casket (1/2)

Silence descended when the giant eyes opened.

Eyes bloodshot, the celestial emperor of Exalted Major stood rooted to the spot with a steadily diminishing aura of a living being. Meanwhile, the two blood-red combatants tearing at each other froze in midair, like insects trapped in amber. However, their auras menaced each other in an increasingly murderous fashion and their eyes turned completely scarlet.

“What’s going on, Aoxue?!” Lu Yun glowered at the blood dragon in midair.

“I’m, I’m not sure. I’m still with Sir Qing Han!” Aoxue could see what was happening in the Sword Barrow through Lu Yun and shared his shock. That wasn’t her!

She hadn’t taken even a single step away from Qing Han; she knew how important the Qing scion was to Lu Yun. Should any danger to Lu Yun arise, he could retreat to the Gates of the Abyss and come up with a response. Thus, Aoxue would never abandon Qing Han to appear next to Lu Yun.

The blood dragon that had burrowed out from the gates wasn’t her!

Wait, blood dragon? It was the blood dragon that everyone thought had been whisked away by the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers!

Previously, Aoxue’s transformation into a blood dragon upon her release from the netherwood coffin had summoned the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers, but Lu Yun had driven them away. When they retreated, they’d taken the body of the blood dragon, leaving only a skeleton behind.

Lu Yun then resurrected the skeleton with the Tome of Life and Death, making Aoxue an Envoy of Samsara. She’d come back to life as a blood dragon, but now… here was another one.

The Enneawyrm Coffinbearers didn’t take the blood dragon away with them, they left it in hell!

Lu Yun’s darkened when he deduced where the blood dragon had come from. If the blood dragon was still residing in hell, where were the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers?

He activated the Tome of Life and Death fully and swept its power through the netherworld, but found no trace of the nine dragons bearing a coffin.

……

“Blood dragon and blood phoenix appearing in the world at the same time… die!” Something growled from above the giant crimson eyes.

The Exalted celestial emperor seemed to be unconscious and insensate to the world. Remaining upright where he was, he was as still as a statue, with thick death energy radiating from his body. Meanwhile, the enormous eyes hovering in the air radiated a tremendous power that sealed the two terrifying blood fiends. Cracks spiderwebbed across their bodies, like they were porcelain or jade figurines.

Screech!

A soul-piercing shriek pierced the air as the premises darkened.

Lu Yun jerked his head up to find a phoenix that spanned five hundred kilometers from wing-tip to wing-tip emerging out of nowhere. The pitch-black bird was wreathed in black flames, and it had nine heads.

A nine-headed phoenix? And the bird bore a giant black coffin on its back!

“A Nine-Phoenix Casket!” His eyes shot wide with surprise. Like the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers, the Nine-Phoenix Casket was a vicious feng shui layout that also existed on Earth.